It was frustrating in the UK too. Lots of old people wearing the surgical masks thinking it will protect them from germs which isn't what those masks were designed to do.
It tends to be people with quite dull lives who care about celebrity personal lives, at least in the UK. It's a working class thing to talk about celebrities, middle class people don't tend to do this so much, if at all.
Governments do spread politics through video games. Haven't you noticed how video games are all about shooting and killing?
New neural pathways are formed when an activity is repeated, especially in adolescence.
Most people join the army because they enjoyed playing the Xbox and PlayStation games.
